| Great Britain. Parliament - 1808 - 740 pagine
...of a middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish faced, cherry-cheeked, hazel eyed, brown haired. He was, in his conversation, very modest and of very few words. He was wont to say, he would not drink high or freely with any one, with whom he would not trust his... | |
| John Walker - 1813 - 1014 pagine
...elected him for their representative in Parliament, and gave him an honourable pension to maintaine him. He was of a middling stature, pretty strong sett,...his conversation very modest, and of very few words. Though he loved wine he would never drink hard in company, and was wont to say, that he would not play... | |
| James Granger - 1824 - 446 pagine
...of at middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish-faced, cherry-cheeked, hazel-eyed, brown-haired. He was, in his conversation, very modest, and of very few words. He was wont to say, he would not drink high or freely with any one, with whom he would not trust his... | |
| James Granger - 1824 - 704 pagine
...of a middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish-faced, cherry-cheeked, hazel-eyed, brown-haired. He was, in his conversation, very modest, and of very few words. He was wont to say, he would not drink high or freely with any one, with whom he would not trust his... | |
| 1909 - 1106 pagine
...Aubrey says so,. Milton's friend, Andiew Marvell, corms very engagingly out of these pages : •• He was of a middling stature, pretty strong sett,...loved wine he would never drinke hard in company, and was wont to say that he would not play the good fellow in any mail's company in whose hands he would... | |
| National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) - 1896 - 526 pagine
...controversial works he was the greatest master of ridicule in his time. Aubrey describes him as of "middling stature, pretty strong sett, roundish faced, cherry cheek't, hazell eie, browne haire." Transferred, June 1879, from the British Museum, to which it had been presented by his great-nephew... | |
| John Aubrey, Andrew Clark - 1898 - 398 pagine
...elected him for their representative in Parliament, and gave him an honourable pension to maintaine him. He was of a middling stature, pretty strong sett,...his conversation very modest, and of very few words c : and though he loved wine he would never drinke hard in company, and wasf wont to say that, he would... | |
| Andrew Marvell - 1904 - 316 pagine
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| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1908 - 304 pagine
...if Aubrey says so. Milton's friend, Andrew Marvell, comes very engagingly out of these pages : — " He was of a middling stature, pretty strong sett,...loved wine he would never drinke hard in company, and was wont to say that he would not flay the good fellow in any man's company in whose hands he would... | |
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